Digital lecture: The people behind the building of a great power
Time
Thursday 27 February at 17.30
Did you know that Skokloster Castle was the largest private building project in Sweden when it was built in the 1650s?
Welcome to a digital lecture with Peter Fröberg, museum host at Skokloster Castle.
In January 1654, some twenty men from Dalarna began digging the foundations, despite the hard frost, but preparations for the start of construction had been underway since the 1640s. Building materials such as gray stone, bricks, sandstone and lime were transported by barges via waterways to a peninsula northwest of Sigtuna. Once there, they were welcomed by the people who worked there, bricklayers, carpenters, stonemasons, masons and soldiers to name a few.
Here, the field lord Count Carl Gustav Wrangel and Countess Anna Margareta von Haugwitz were to build their ancestral castle, a monumental project that fulfilled the high nobility's expectations of manifesting power and wealth.
What do we know about the workers who turned these ideas into reality? What was the actual building process like? Who were the key people behind this huge undertaking and where did the inspiration for the castle's design come from, both inside and out?
Don't miss the chance to learn more about Skokloster Castle as a building and about the traces of the people involved in the construction of Sweden's best preserved Baroque castle today!
- Cost: SEK 100. Book your ticket at Tickster.
- The lecture will take place digitally via Zoom. You will receive the link in the confirmation email after you have booked the ticket.